On 2021-04-11, Jeff Ross <jr...@openvistas.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just upgraded to 6.8 from 6.3 (yes, I know...) and now find a few of the > websites I'm hosting are no longer connecting to postgres because pear > DB is apparently no longer in ports. Fortunately so far they all appear > to be *my* websites so no harm, no foul. > > The sites that I'm hosting through something like drupal7 or wordpress > are all fine--it's only the sites that I created a gazillion years ago > using pear DB that are really failing. > > Are there alternatives that I'm missing? > > Please, I really don't feel the need to move off apache2 just yet. > > Thanks, > > Jeff > >
I don't recall pear DB being in ports, could you have installed it separately and just need to update it to work with current php? Generally pear things doesn't get added to ports unless needed for some particular application that is wanted in ports, but that is not so common these days as php applications normally bundle their own 'vendored' dependencies. To install them yourself you can use "pear install" (systemwide) or just for a particular project via a dependency manager e.g. "composer". (note pear DB is still available but no longer getting normal updates, see https://pear.php.net/package/DB/, see https://pear.php.net/package/MDB2 for similar current equivalent).
